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spondingly, if a specific creditor is designated, but it is added that the obligation shall be performable to the holder of the instrument.

472.

The debtor on an obligation performable to order cannot set up against any assignee in good faith defences which he might have set up against the original creditor, except such as appear upon the face of the instrument or result naturally from its character.

473.

The provisions of the preceding article apply correspondingly to obligations performable to bearer.

Section V.
The Extinguishment of Obligations.

Subsection I.
Performance.

474.

Performance of an obligation may be made by any third person, unless its nature does not admit of it, or the parties concerned have expressed a contrary intention.

A person who has no interest in the performance,

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